In Pohorelá opened new square

In Pohorelá (Brezno district), they celebrated on Friday, December 5th 2008 the opening of new square "Pohorelský dvor". The project of the square renewal was supported from the open grant programme Public Spaces in 2008.

The objective of the project was the square renewal in the centre of the village, on the council estates. After the planning phase, when the inhabitants describes their ideas in the questionnaire these suggestions were put into planning study by a professional architect.

Public Spaces Programm called PrieStory in Slovak was launched in 2005 as a brand new concept in Slovakia. It is based on the US program - Project for Public Spaces that has been accommodated to Slovak conditions.

Program endeavors to reach two main goals. The first, more visible one, is to revitalize neglected public spaces and transform them into vital meeting places. The second goal, less visible but very important one from our point of view, is to involve people living in the neighborhood, surrounding blocks of flats or streets in the planning of this reconstruction.